Routledge Revivals Ser.: Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Poetry 1660-1780 ...

Name: Routledge Revivals Ser.: Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Poetry 1660-1780 ...
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Poetry 1660-1780 (Routledge Revivals)Author(s): Eric Rothstein\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138821163, 978-1138821163\nSynopsis\nRestoration and Eighteenth-Century Poetry [tel], originally published in 1981, considers poetry written between 1660 and 1780, a period which, although largely recovered from its nineteenth-century reputation, still attracts widely varying critical responses. Abandoning the old labels such as neoclassicism, romanticism and sensibility, the author focuses on descriptions of genres and their formal elements and traces the broader patterns of literary and historical change running through the period. \n\nEric Rothstein describes different poetic modes- panegyric, satire, pastoral and topographical poetry, the epistle, and the ode- to suggest their aesthetical possibilities as well as their process of change. He also considers style and the uses of the.